[13] In keeping with his energetic persona, Hugo was quoted in Interview Magazine (April 1975): "Perhaps you would describe me as jaded, darling, but I prefer to say that in living there is absolutely nothing that is bad.

[19][14] He further stated that "Andy saw Victor as the perfect source for ideas: someone with a fertile imagination who didn't know what to do with it...The Venezuelan's own art was going nowhere: He signed rat traps and handed them out at parties; he dipped chickens' feet in red paint and called their footprints drawings".

[20] In 1978, the artist and videographer Anton Perich made a short film of Hugo destroying a Warhol painting as "a sacrifice".

[22] "When Studio 54 opened, New York was at the height of its decadence, and things changed with Andy," Johnson told Warhol's biographer Victor Bockris.

[24][26] Hugo had previously signed a nondisclosure agreement in 1985 to not speak publicly about his relationship with Halston in exchange for a large monetary sum, but he broke it.

[27] In his 1997 book The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, Anthony Haden-Guest wrote how the artist Scott Covert encountered a homeless Hugo in December 1993 sleeping in a park after running out of money to stay at the Hotel Chelsea.

[10] Covert and fellow Hotel Chelsea resident Colleen Weinstein helped a cancer-stricken Hugo such as taking him to his hospital visits.

Gian Franco Rodríguez portrayed Hugo in the 2021 Ryan Murphy produced Netflix television miniseries Halston.